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Naturalism Without Mirrors by Huw Price (2011-04-15)
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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
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Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other contemporary forms of philosophical naturalism, comparing it with other pragmatist and neo-pragmatist views such as those of Robert Brandom and Simon Blackburn. Linking their different 'expressivist' programmes, Price argues for a radical global expressivism that combines key elements from both. With Paul Horwich and Michael Williams, Brandom and Blackburn respond to Price in new essays. Price replies in the closing essay, emphasising links between his views and those of Wilfrid Sellars. The volume will be of great interest to advanced students of philosophy of language and metaphysics.
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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (2013-05-16)
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Facts and the Function of Truth (Philosophy of Theory)
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This book examines the distinction between fact-stating and non-fact-stating uses of language. This distinction is important in many areas of modern philosophy and is central to "non-factualism"; the view that despite appearances, certain areas of discourse are not factual. These applications typically assume that the notion of statement of fact can be analysed in one of three ways: semantically, metapysically and psychologically. Huw Price argues that none of these approaches provides a non-trivial distinction, capable of excluding the possibility that all utterances are statements of fact. The argument suggests that the search for an analysis is misconceived. "Facts and the Function of Truth" develops an alternative approach, which seeks to explain the development of the fact-stating form of discourse in terms of its function in human life. It outlines such an account, based on the hypothesis that the main function of the normative notions of truth and falsity is to encourage us to argue, with long-run behavioural advantages. As well as throwing light on statement of fact, this original approach offers a new perspective on notions such as truth and the representational character of language and mind.
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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (2013-05-16)
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Huw Price: Naturalism Without Mirrors (Hardcover); 2011 Edition
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Naturalism Without Mirrors
(This volume brings together fourteen major essays on trut...)
This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about representation to craft a powerful and sustained critique of contemporary naturalistic metaphysics. In its place, he offers us not nonnaturalistic metaphysics, or philosophical quietism, but a new positive program for philosophy, cast from a pragmatist mold. This collection will be essential reading for anyone interested naturalism, pragmatism, truth, expressivism, pluralism and representationalism, or in deep questions about the direction and foundations of contemporary philosophy. It will be especially important to practitioners of analytic metaphysics, if they wish to confront the presuppositions of their own discipline. Price recommends a modest explanatory naturalism, in the sense of Hume: naturalism about own linguistic behavior, regarded as a behavior of natural creatures in a natural environment. He shows how this viewpoint privileges use and function over truth and reference, and expression over representation, as useful theoretical categories for the core philosophical project; and thereby undermines the semantic presuppositions of contemporary analytic metaphysics. At the same time, it offers an attractive resolution of the so-called "placement problems", that so preoccupy metaphysical naturalists--a global expressivism, with affinities both to the more local expressivism of writers such as Blackburn and Gibbard, and to Brandom's global inferentialism.
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Huw Price
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He was previously Challis Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, and before that Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also one of three founders of the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and the director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence. He was elected a Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1994, and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012.
Around 2012, Price co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, stating that "lieutenant seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology." Price voices concern that as computers become smarter than humans, humans could someday be destroyed by "machines that are not malicious, but machines whose interests don"t include us," and seeks to push this concern forward in the "respectable scientific community".
Around 2015, he assumed the directorship of the new Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, stating "will be one of the defining themes of our century, and the challenges of ensuring that we make good use of its opportunities are ones we all face together. At present, however, we have barely begun to consider its ramifications, good or bad.".
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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
(Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representa...)
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Naturalism Without Mirrors
(This volume brings together fourteen major essays on trut...)
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Facts and the Function of Truth (Philosophy of Theory)
(This book examines the distinction between fact-stating a...)
- Naturalism Without Mirrors by Huw Price (2011-04-15)
- (Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism) Author: Huw Price published on (June, 2013)
- Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (2013-05-16)
- Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price (2013-05-16)
- Huw Price: Naturalism Without Mirrors (Hardcover); 2011 Edition
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Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism
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In addition to his work in philosophy of physics, he is known especially for his brand of "neo-pragmatism" and "anti-representationalism," according to which "all utterances must be looked at through the lens of their function in our interactions, not the metaphysics of their semantic relations." This view has acknowledged affinities with the work of Robert Brandom and, earlier, Wilfrid Sellars.
